The International Energy Agency (IEA) has stuck to its previous forecast for global oil demand in 2010, following two consecutive upwards revisions, but has lowered its 2009 estimates based on adjus...

Asian investment guru Marc Faber tells Credit why India offers some of the best investment opportunities in the region, and discusses the implications of asset bubbles in China. Despite being born in...

Standard & Poor’s has licensed its S&P 500 index to Bosera Asset Management for the development of an exchange-traded fund for Chinese investors. Bosera has $30.8 billion in assets under management....

This white paper looks at the heavy impact of regulation on investment managers, the mitigation of outsourcing risk, inefficiencies in corporate actions processing and the growing importance of collateral management.

BP and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have awarded a raft of other energy and commodities companies deals to start drilling and production in the lucrative Iraqi Rumaila oilfield, which...

Russian energy giant Gazprom has secured its foothold in Asia by opening a new office in Singapore, to focus on global liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping and trading, as well as portfolio developm...

Chinese oil refining, producing and trading company China Petroleum and Chemical (Sinopec) has acquired deep-water oil assets in Angola by buying a 55% stake in Sonangol Sinopec, in a bid to further...

The renminbi will over the long term become a reserve currency, according to a survey of central bank reserve managers carried out by Incisive Media's Central Banking Publications in autumn 2009.
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The FTSE 100 index has been licensed to appear on the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the first time. It has been licensed for use by Hua An Asset Management and will be the basis of the asset manager's first...

Shanghai-based China Financial Futures Exchange (Cffex), China's first and only financial futures exchange - which looks set to trade its first index futures contracts in April - has raised the limit on...

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects will not ultimately deliver, so the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) CDM Executive Board is looking at alternative mechanisms...

The mood in the carbon markets has certainly been sombre since the Copenhagen talks failed to achieve a binding agreement on global emissions cuts post 2012. The continued uncertainty over what will happen...

With China widely blamed for the failure of Copenhagen, some experts believe CDM investors could now shun the country in favour of India and Brazil, or that the EU may even take action again Chinese...

UBS recently offered investors in Hong Kong the opportunity to invest against the iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Tracker Fund. Capital would have been at risk had the three-month product not kicked o...

This JP Morgan product from November 2008 linked to a basket of four Asian indexes and promised a 2.05% quarterly income payment. In the event of a kickout, however, capital was placed at risk and t...

This white paper looks at the Basel Committee's BCBS239 principles, also known as PERDARR (Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting), which comes into force from 1 January 2016.